The Land the Americans Settled

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Across
  1. 2. Indies A 2,000 mile-long chain of mountainous islands in the Caribbean Sea
  2. 4. Desert One of the driest places on earth
  3. 6. McKinley The highest peak in North America
  4. 8. Bay The world’s largest bay
  5. 9. A way of life
  6. 10. The most famous Indians who lived in Mexico
  7. 12. of Mexico The world’s largest gulf
  8. 13. Columbus called the land he discovered the ________ because he thought it was part of the Indies islands of Asia
  9. 15. Horn The southernmost point in the Americas
  10. 16. third Greenland is about ___________ the size of Australia, the smallest continent, and it is almost completely covered by ice
Down
  1. 1. America A narrow bridge of land that connects North America to South America and dives the Atlantic’s Caribbean Sea from the Pacific Ocean
  2. 3. Indians One of the most advanced early civilizations of the Western Hemisphere
  3. 5. River North America’s longest river
  4. 7. The most famous South American Indians
  5. 11. North America is the ______ largest continent
  6. 12. The world’s largest island
  7. 14. The Amazon is the ______longest river and also the largest river in the world in terms of the amount of water it contains